[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#693224: dovecot-core - Needs Getopt/Std.pm

[Julien Cristau]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 07:59:57 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
> >The ntp package provides more than just that one script.  The rest
> >doesn't need perl, so I would argue it's ok for ntp to not depend on
> >perl, and the bug here is in dovecot.
> >
> 
> Well it is moot then because dovecot no longer uses ntp-wait.  But I still
> don't understand why if even a  small portion of the ntp packages
> functionality will fail to work without an additional package, it should
> not depend on or atleast recommend that package.
> 
It does recommend it.

Cheers,
Julien